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The German 19-year-old cybersecurity researcher who remotely accessed several Teslas through a third-party flaw, has a new trick: hacking the car owners’ email addresses to notify them they are at risk. Earlier this month, David Colombo discovered a flaw in a piece of third-party open source software that let him remotely hijack some functions on

PARIS — Stellantis will begin exporting commercial vans to Europe from its factory in Kaluga, Russia, to meet increased demand. Exports will start with three midsize sibling models, the Peugeot Expert, the Opel Vivaro and the Citroen Jumpy. Shipments are  planned to start in February. The vans produced in Russia would add to those made

BERLIN — Intel still intends to develop European chip manufacturing capacity despite the delayed plans being overshadowed by its announcement on Friday to invest more than $20 billion in chip production in two new U.S. semiconductor plants. The company said in September it could invest as much as $95 billion in Europe over the next

PARIS – Stellantis will add 850 jobs at its plant in Mulhouse, eastern France following strong orders for the Peugeot 308 compact car, labor unions said. Stellantis plans to set up a third production team at the plant in mid March and hire the staff over the coming months, unions FO Metaux and CFE-CGC said

Semiconductor manufacturer Infineon expects shortage of its core product to be over next year, with the situation improving in summer, a top executive said. “I assume that we will be able to cover demand well in 2023,” the head of Infineon’s automotive unit, Peter Schiefer, told Automobile News Europe sister publication Automobilwoche. “The last issues

Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors plan to triple their investment to jointly develop electric vehicles, two people with knowledge of the plan told Reuters. As established automakers face pressure from new competitors and an expected shift in demand toward EVs, the French-Japanese alliance is seeking to deepen cooperation. The three are expected to announce on

Kensington Capital, whose blank-check companies have already taken public QuantumScape and Wallbox has tapped former Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche as vice chairman for a fourth automotive-focused special purpose acquisition company. Its latest SPAC, Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp IV, filed Thursday to raise $200 million in an initial public offering. The company said it will focus

LONDON — Jaguar has recorded its lowest quarterly sales since 2013 as parent Jaguar Land Rover focused scarce microchips on the more profitable Land Rover brand. Jaguar’s global vehicle sales in the quarter ending Dec 31. fell 49 percent to 14,407, the lowest three-month total since the last quarter of 2013. Jaguar and Land Rover

BEIJING — China’s state planner said on Friday that restrictions on purchases of new energy vehicles (NEVs) will be gradually removed in various parts of the country in a “vigorous” push to promote NEVs and “green consumption.” The Chinese government uses the term new energy vehicles to refer to low-emissions vehicles including plug-in-hybrid, full-electric and

BEIJING — Volkswagen’s vehicle plant with FAW in Tianjin, China, resumed production on Friday after shutting on Jan. 10 because of recent COVID-19 outbreaks in the eastern Chinese city, the German automaker said. “The FAW-Volkswagen vehicle plant had temporarily shut down operations due to missing parts from suppliers and pending COVID-19 test results of employees.

When Aston Martin prepared for its stock market debut in 2018, it sought to lure investors with scarcity value. There were few publicly traded luxury-car makers to invest in, and Aston at least stood a chance of replicating the success of Ferrari, whose value almost tripled in the three years after its 2015 initial public

Group Lotus and Britishvolt have signed a preliminary agreement to explore teaming up on battery manufacturing, research and development, according to people familiar with the matter. The companies plan to share details of their memorandum of understanding next week, said the people, who asked not to be identified ahead of the announcement. Representatives for Lotus

TOKYO — Toyota says it has paused some production at a plant in central Japan after 14 workers there tested positive for coronavirus. The planned four-day halt to production at a Tsutsumi factory line, which makes Camry and Corolla models, will cut vehicle output by as many as 1,500 vehicles, a company spokesperson said. Toyota

Quantum computer maker IonQ said that it is partnering with Hyundai to use quantum computers to develop more effective batteries. The partnership will create a battery chemistry model to simulate the structure and energy of lithium oxide, to help improve the performance, costs, and safety of lithium batteries, IonQ said. Researchers believe quantum computers could

BERLIN — Volkswagen and Robert Bosch plan to set up a joint venture by the end of this year to equip battery cell factories and help make Europe self-sufficient in battery production. The unit will explore the possibilities of industrial-scale solutions for battery manufacturing in Europe, VW and Bosch said in a statement on Tuesday. The new

BERLIN — Volkswagen and Robert Bosch plan to set up a joint venture by the end of this year to equip battery cell factories and help make Europe self-sufficient in battery production. The unit will explore the possibilities of industrial-scale solutions for battery manufacturing in Europe, VW and Bosch said in a statement on Tuesday. The new

PARIS — Dacia’s sales were up 3 percent in 2021, an increase that can be largely attributed to the Spring, a minicar built in China that is the least-expensive full-electric vehicle on the European market. There were 27,876 Springs registered starting in March, with 46,000 orders since then, Dacia said Monday.  The Spring was first

BERLIN — Germany’s goal of getting 15 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030 includes full-electric and hybrid vehicles, the country’s transport minister said, in a retreat from a pledge in the coalition government’s agreement late last year. “We want electrically powered vehicles. Of course, hybrids also make a contribution to this,” Volker Wissing

TOKYO — Toyota is teasing new concepts in Japan, including a sleek Toyota GT3 racer, that could foreshadow a new road car, a rugged plug-in hybrid Lexus NX crossover, a hydrogen-powered recreational buggy from Lexus and a sporty GRMN Yaris hot hatchback. The GR GT3 Concept, perhaps the most intriguing of the bunch, will debut

Canada’s auto safety regulator said it had opened an investigation into the heating system of Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles following 16 consumer complaints about its performance in cold weather. The agency, Transport Canada, said it was concerned that a malfunctioning heating and air-conditioning system “may affect windshield defogging/defrosting and therefore driver visibility.”

TOKYO — Subaru will attempt a record run at the Nürburgring with a new 1,000-hp four-motor electric race car that presages the all-wheel drive specialist’s dive into zero emissions. The automaker unveiled the STI E-RA Concept on Friday at the Tokyo Auto Salon customized car show. Subaru said it developed the STI E-RA “with the

Guido Dumarey is an outspoken Belgian engineer who in 1986 created Punch Group, a family-owned collection of businesses and investments in Europe with annual revenue of more than 500 million euros. Much of that revenue comes from Punch Group’s automotive arm, which supplies powertrain parts and engineering services. Dumarey, who is CEO at Punch Group,

LONDON — Jaguar Land Rover sales dipped 1.2 percent in 2021 on reduced deliveries of Jaguar cars and a shortage of semiconductors. JLR sold 420,856 vehicles last year, with the Land Rover brand posting 334,586, up 3.4 percent, and the Jaguar marque down 16 percent to 86,270, the automaker said in a statement. Semiconductor shortages

PARIS — Citroen’s global sales increased by 7 percent in 2021 amid the semiconductor shortage, with gains in every region, the automaker said. The Stellantis brand recorded 796,868 sales, with 624,140 in Europe (a gain of 1.2 percent), 61,695 in the Middle East and Africa (up 12 percent); 48,615 in South America (up 39 percent);

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top court dismissed a complaint on Thursday brought by the cities of Brussels, Madrid and Paris against the European Commission in which they accused it of setting car emissions limits for nitrogen oxides too high. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) thereby overruled an earlier judgement in

PARIS — Renault will become an electric-only brand in Europe by 2030, CEO Luca de Meo said, as the automaker moved up its timetable to halt sales of internal combustion engines. Renault joins a growing list of brands including Stellantis brands Peugeot, Fiat and Opel, and Ford of Europe that have made similar pledges. “Renault

California is evaluating whether Tesla Inc.’s self-driving tests require regulatory oversight, following “videos showing a dangerous use of that technology” and federal investigations into Tesla vehicle crashes, a state regulator said. The California Department of Motor Vehicles had said that Tesla’s “full self-driving,” or FSD, beta requires human intervention and therefore is not subject to

Porsche’s annual global vehicle sales broke the 300,000 mark for the first time last year as the automaker overcame chip shortages to fulfil rising global demand for its cars, especially plug-in-hybrid models. Deliveries increased 11 percent to 301,915, Porsche said in a statement. Porsche’s previous record annual sales were 280,800in 2019. The Taycan full-electric sedan

PARIS — Renault has hired two experts in new technologies from PSA Group, now part of Stellantis, two sources close to the company told Reuters, to help its efforts in developing electrified and connected cars. Jean-Francois Salessy, PSA’s former head of electronics and electric systems until 2019, has become Renault’s head of advanced technologies, the

Polestar reached its 2021 global sales goal of 29,000 cars, which was a increase of more than 185 percent on 2020, the Volvo Cars subsidiary said on Tuesday. Polestar, which plans to go public via a merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Gores Guggenheim in the first half of this year, has an even tougher